WASHINGTON — Sen. Josh Hawley is slowing things down in the U.S. Senate.
This summer, after the Biden administration’s harried withdrawal of Americans and their allies from Afghanistan, Hawley, R-Mo., announced he would obstruct the Senate’s process of confirming otherwise noncontroversial nominees to the State and Defense departments unless Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan resigned.
It’s a largely symbolic move. It doesn’t block Biden from filling Cabinet positions so much as it grinds the process down to a slog.
